I'm sick… I mean really sick, like once in over 20 years kind of sick. (Honestly, I worked it out!) Did I mention I DON’T make a good patient? 😷

Just as I could see the path clearing ahead, life throws another curveball- sound familiar?

It seems to be a pattern that all of us go through- we’re just about to level up when something slaps us out of nowhere and knocks us off course. And I’ve figured out why this always seems to happen just as we’re doing something different- it’s all about momentum!

Lets paint a picture- you’re riding a bike 🚲 on a wide and smooth footpath and you’re going nice and fast in a straight line. You hit a patch of dirt- and carry on. Maybe it gets a bit slippy and slidy for a little bit, but generally speaking nothing much happens. Now let’s look at what happens if we’re in the middle of making a quick turn- maybe something ran out in front of us that we have to avoid, and we’re desperately trying to change direction fast. We hit that same patch of dirt but now all kinds of shit goes down- we start sliding, maybe the wheel starts going out from underneath us, and maybe we recover ok but worst case scenario we hit the pavement with a thud. Our momentum wanted to keep us going in the straight line, but because we’d started to change direction that momentum now actually worked against us!

Apply that to life/business/finances/study etc and you can start to see why it seems like we get slammed whenever we’re trying to start something new. The straight line (business as usual) means we’re balanced and easily able to ride smoothly over the issues and challenges that are actually always happening. Then consider the situation where we’re already off balance (ie changing direction and getting used to doing something new) and our attention is divided over lots of things we haven’t experienced before. We're nearly at mental and physical capacity already then that same issue happens- it’s really easy to see how it can feel like this happens EVERY DAMN TIME, because it probably does- it's just that a lot of the time it happens when we're cruising smoothly and we barely feel a bump!  (Yaay for flu bugs making me philosophical and introspective- there’s one of my social media posts for next week! 🎉🎉🎉)

So yaay- I’m starting to feel better (FYI it’s just the flu- nasty, but not major in the overall scheme of things, I just like being a drama queen from time to time😉! I’m still getting the sweats every now and then though, and can’t pin it down to anything in particular- do I still have a temperature? Perimenopause? Doing dishes in a sink of really hot water in what still feels like summer weather? Who knows?!).

Ok, time for a quick update about something except how bad I’ve felt the last week and a half!

I’ve started feeling better about how my social media impact is going- the analytics are showing the right things, I’m having great conversations on other people’s posts and really contributing to people without overstepping my boundaries, and I see that people are following me more. But I’m still feeling put out by the lack of likes- I mean, you like what I have to say enough to follow me, but not enough to give me a like occasionally? WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS PEOPLE??? Ok, I’m ok… nothing to see here… *smoothes ruffled feathers*

We’re in a long weekend at the moment and I’ve decided this is when I really get my shit sorted out. I’ve just finished setting up an alternative course host because I’m not thrilled with the original provider I chose and suspect I’ll end up switching my main course to this one in a while too (But for once I’m not going to be stupid enough to try it right now!). I’ve set up my first paid mini-course on the new provider, got my MailChimp and Calendly integrations set up and working (woohoo!!!🥳🥳🥳), and added HEAPS more content to it than I’d originally planned, so I’m feeling really good about the value people will get from it!

As usual though, what I’ve planned to do this weekend has been let down by the fact that there’s only 3 days to do it in and not 6- I really need to work on my time estimates better! But I’m wondering if I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and for once it’s maybe not the proverbial oncoming train? If I looked at it I’d say I’m probably 90% of the way there with the one time setups that need to be done, and there’s a possibility I may be able to get enough content recorded to set me up for a month of scheduled posts (Once I’ve processed the recordings, of course!). Could it be that life might be starting to fall into a new normal? 

Spoiler alert- I was not in fact even close- check in next week to see why!

(Edit from future me- I got sidetracked going down the money manifestation rabbit hole in week 6- but we'll catch up on things in week 7!)